Well, when Hack is positive about something, it must be a damned good thing:

[O]ur forces in Iraq have come a long way from late last year when the guerrillas were playing the tune and we were dancing badly. Now our intelligence machine is cranking out smarter skinny, our fast-moving strike forces often clobber the guerrillas before they can make their moves, and our chopper community keeps coming up with more tricks of the guerrilla-fighting trade.
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The biggest plus reported by these heroes is that the order of the day appears to be: Damn the stateside regs. Their battle-wise aviation commanding officers listen to the crews and aren’t afraid to demand that the generals make relevant changes.

I knew the Iraqis had stumbled across some weird winning combination when we had that rash of helicopter knock downs last month. Hack did too... he had a "what are we doing wrong?" request up on his site all this month. Fortunately we've proven just as adaptable as the bad guys, and the knock downs have stopped. Hack's here to give us the good news. For once.